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Learn how to use BLS wage and employment data for local economic stories at free webinar June 4
National Press Club members can join a free online webinar at 1 p.m. June 4 on how to use data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages to write local economic stories. The hour-long webinar is sponsored by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and the American Statistical Association. Speakers will include Paul Overberg, data reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and David Hiles of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Board of Governors Vice Chair Kimberly Adams, a correspondent for Marketplace, will moderate. To register, click here. The QCEW…
Type: News
COVID book talks continue with Post reporters discussing Trump White House
Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker will discuss their book, A Very Stable Genius, a No. 1 best-selling behind-the-scenes account of President Donald Trump's White House, at 8:30 p.m. June 10, the latest in a series of online book talks. Rucker is the Washington Post's White House bureau chief, and Leonnig is an investigative reporter. We will get some insights into their research and writing, and how Trump has changed Washington. The two will discuss their book with National Press Club Board member Del Wilber. To participate, email Wilber at [email protected] to get on the list of Zoom …
Type: News
Media watchdog: COVID-19 is worsening threat to global press freedom
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders is warning the coronavirus pandemic poses a threat to press freedom around the world. In its annual evaluation of global media freedoms, Reporters Without Borders said the health crisis could serve as an excuse for governments “to take advantage of the fact that politics are on hold, the public is stunned and protests are out of the question, in order to impose measures that would be impossible in normal times.” The report said COVID-19 "has amplified the spread of rumors and fake news as quickly as the virus itself.” In the latest edition of Update-1…
Type: News
Media Watchdog: COVID-19 Is Worsening Threat To Global Press Freedom
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing healthcare and economic woes around the world, and some governments are using the global crisis as an opportunity to seize control of information flowing from and within their borders. With press freedom increasingly under attack, many journalists find it difficult to collect and provide details about COVID-19, especially in nations that have been hot spots for the virus. In this edition of Update-1, Broadcast Podcast team member Shannon Fisher speaks with Executive Director of Reporters Without Borders (a.k.a. Reporters sans Frontières, or RSF) USA Dokhi…
Type: Media
C-SPAN's 25th Anniversary
Brian Lamb detailed his personal biography and his development of the C-SPAN cable networks. He praised the many cable executives and other persons who made it possible. 25 years ago C-SPAN was created as a new concept, a private not-for-profit corporation, and a public service paid for by the cable providers who carry it. He said his guiding philosophy is simplicity and openness, saying, "Let the American people have the opportunity to watch public events in their entirety and make up their own minds." He talked about ending his 'Booknotes' weekly interview program after covering 800 books.…
Type: Media
Virtual Event: When Schools Close: Harnessing the Power of Summer for America’s Students
The National Summer Learning Association will host a virtual press conference, When Schools Close: Harnessing the Power of Summer for America’s Students on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 11:00 am -12:30 pm ET @PressClubDC. Leading experts to address the uncertainty of summer programs during COVID-19 and opportunities to leverage the summer months to help students learn, grow and safely re-acclimate when schools re-open in the new school year. See media advisory here. Registration is required.
Type: Event
Charlie Schaeffer, retired executive editor
Charles (Charlie) P. Schaeffer, a retired executive editor at The Kiplinger Washington Editors and a 59-year member of the National Press Club, died April 5. He was 94 and had lived in Pittsboro, N.C., after retiring from Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine. "He was funny, he was kind and he was a hell of a writer no matter what the assignment," said Ted Miller, former magazine editor. Although a specialist in health an recipient of a award from the American Heart Association, Schaeffer quickly shifted to financial issues when the magazine changed its name from Changing Times to …
Type: News
Herb Bloom, pioneering TV producer
Herbert (Herb) Bloom, a pioneering TV producer and seven-year member of the National Press Club, died May 2. He was 78 and lived in Washington. A self-described “boy from the Bronx,” the New York native developed a love for riding horses and collecting southwestern art. “As executive producer, he didn’t so much cover the news, rather he choreographed the people who made it reach our living rooms,” said his stepson, David Fox. “Innovative and inquisitive, to say the least, Herb did everything that he could to get the story.” Bloom graduated from Stuyvesant High School and Yeshiva University…
Type: News
Long-time Club employee Gonzalo Cabrera
Long-time Club employee Gonzalo Cabrera passed away on Saturday. He was a longtime valued and loved Press Club employee. He was devoted to his family and enjoyed a good joke, once collaborating with the late Jack Kujawski, Reliable Source bartender, to persuade a new employee that his work at the club was a sideline and he was actually the owner of a cattle ranch and vegetable farm.
Type: News
Club President Michael Freedman remembers a longtime member, CBS News leader William J. Small: 'Setting standards and breaking barriers that we take for granted today'
Once a great while, a person comes along who changes lives. And then there are those who change the world. In the world of journalism such a man was Bill Small, who passed away Sunday, May 24, at the age of 93. In short, Mr. Small, as he was known to all professionally, led the vaunted team that set the standard for television news coverage during the most formative years of the medium in the nation’s capital. From 1962 to 1974, an era that spanned the Kennedy administration, the war in Vietnam and Watergate—the Walter Cronkite era of television news—Bill Small served as Washington Bureau…
Type: News